biology Discoveries and Vaccines test 23 Welcome to your biology Discoveries and Vaccines test 23 Name Email 1.For immunity against which of the following diseases is BCG vaccine given? (a) Asthma (b) Chickenpox (c) Polio (d) Tuberculosis None 2.Who discovered the TB vaccine? (a) Edward Jenner (b) Jonas Salk and Camille Guerin (c) Leon Calmette and Camille Guerin (d) Louis Pasteur None 3.Who discovered the smallpox vaccine? (a) Jonas Salk (b) Louis Pasteur (c) Edward Jenner (d) Leon Calmette None 4.Who among the following developed the Cholera vaccine in 1885? (a) Edward Jenner (b) Jaime Ferrán (c) Jonas Salk (d) Leon Calmette None 5.Onions produce the chemical irritant known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide; this stimulates the eyes' ______ glands which release tears. (a) lachrymal (b) parotid (c) sublingual (d) submandibular None 6.How many recognized essential vitamins are there as of March 2021? (a) 15 (b) 11 (c) 13 (d) 9 None 7.Who is referred to as the ‘Darwin of the 20th Century’? (a) Katherine Esau (b) Ernst Mayr (c) Har Gobind Khorana (d) Marshall Warren Nirenberg None 8.Which scientist won the Nobel Prize in 1915 for describing the nature of the structure of chlorophyll in plants and also noted magnesium as the central element in its structure? (a) James Watson (b) Werner Heisenberg (c) Hermann Muller (d) Richard Willstätter None 9.. Christiaan Barnard is famous for: (a) first publishing tables of logarithms (b) performing the world's first human heart transplant (c) delivering the world's first test-tube baby (d) cloning the first mammal ever None 10.Who discovered cells in the human body? (a) Charles Darwin (b) Robert Hooke (c) Herbert Spencer (d) Albert Einstein None 11.Whose invention led to the development of the polio vaccine? (a) Linus Pauling (b) Jonas Salk (c) Robert Wellberg (d) Ernest Haeckel None 12.Which botanist is credited with creating one of the first widely used natural systems of plant classification? (a) Joseph Banks (b) August Wilhelm Eichler (c) Joseph Dalton Hooker (d) Robert Brown None 13.There is No vaccine for which of the following hepatitis viruses? (a) Hepatitis A (b) Hepatitis D (c) Hepatitis B (d) Hepatitis C None 14.Who among the following suggested that life must have developed from simple inorganic molecules? (a) Gregor Mendel (b) J.B.S. Haldane (c) Charles Darwin (d) Stanley L. Miller None 15.Who is known as father of Surgery? (a) Charak (b) Patanjali (c) Hippocrates (d) Sushruta None 16.Who invented penicillin? (a) Galileo Galilei (b) Alexander Fleming (c) Evangelista Torricelli (d) Theordore H.Maiman None 17. Which of the following scientist is related to the discovery of crescograph? (a) Meghnad Saha (b) Homi J. Bhabha (c) Satyendra Nath Bose (d) Jagdish Chandra Bose None 18.. Penicillin, one of the world’s first antibiotic, was discovered by: (a) Marie Curie (b) Alexander Fleming (c) Alexander Graham Bell (d) Pierre Curie None 19.The five kingdom concept of classification of organisms was given by: (a) William Paley (b) Charles Darwin (c) Carl Woese (d) Robert Whittaker None 20.DNA was first isolated, analysed and recognised as a unique macromolecule by _________ in 1869. (a) Friedrich Miescher (b) William Astbury (c) Oswald Avery (d) Alfred Hershey None 21. ____is known as the ‘Father of Indian Ornithology’ (a) Salim Ali (b) John James Audubon (c) Konrad Lorenz (d) Allan Octavian Hume None 22.Who among the following discovered the circulation of blood? (a) William Harvey (b) Florence Rena Sabin (c) Ernst Heinrich Weber (d) Van Leeuwenhoek None 23.The phrase ‘Survival of the fittest’ as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection was coined by __________. (a) Louis Pasteur (b) Charles Babbage (c) Herbert Spencer (d) Marie Curie None 24.Who discovered the first vaccine for smallpox? (a) Louis Pasteur (b) Edward Jenner (c) Alexander Fleming (d) John Hun None 25. Which scientist discovered the ‘Penicillin’? (a) Louis Pasteur (b)Alexander Fleming (c) Robert Koch (d) Emst Chain None 26.Who won the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his neuron doctrine? (a) Pierre Curie (b) Santiago Ramón y Cajal (c) Henry Moseley (d) Luis Alvarez None Time's up